Word: eruptions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half would vote for Truman.* Next day a rumble of opposition broke out on the convention floor over a resolution which indirectly endorsed Tom Dewey (it said that Governor Dewey had never said anything bad about the U.M.W.). The resolution passed, but the mild resentment caused the geyser to erupt again. Lewis steamily trumpeted: "If there is any man who wants to trade me off for a Truman, let him trade and be damned...
Next step is to find a drug that will kill the parasites in the liver before they have time to erupt into the bloodstream. Dr. Shortt, 61, is willing to leave that detail to the chemists; he has an idea about African sleeping sickness that he wants to get right to work...
...spread by contact. Though not venereal, it is caused by a spirochete that is indistinguishable from that of syphilis (like syphilis, it gives a positive Wasserman). Attacking through cuts or bruises, the spirochete first produces a raspberry-like running sore, usually on the legs. After a few months, sores erupt all over the body; in the third stage, the disease eats away the flesh...
Naturally, proper names are one grand mal de tête. Unfamiliar names of newsmakers erupt into the headlines almost daily-Marshal Fevsi Çakmak. Princess Sukhodhaya, Sir Ofori Atta. And rare is the week that strange place names don't pop up, as the news shifts around from earthquakes in the Caribbean to incidents in the air over Yugoslavia. For months now the research librarian in charge of the Biography files in our Morgue has been working on a great continuing project to assist researchers in checking the proper names and titles of foreigners...
Mauna Loa was ticking like a time bomb. Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, a rugged old master of volcanology at the University of Hawaii, would not venture a guess on the day or month Mauna Loa would erupt, but according to his charts and records, 1946 is a climactic year in the volcano's eleven-year cycle. That cycle has been rolling along as steady as moonrise since 1832-and probably well before that. When the eruption comes, says Dr. Jaggar, there is a good chance that a stream of smoking lava will writhe slowly down the north side...